Vertical White Boards

Over the past week, I’ve sharing insights I gained as I worked with a group of fifth graders to test drive the first three practices from Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC): In this final post, lets talk vertical white boards. One of the things that frustrated me the most when I taught 6th grade remotely during…

Random Groups

This week, I’m sharing insights I gained as I worked with a group of fifth graders to test drive the first three practices from Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC): Today, lets talk random groups: As Peter’s book suggest, the cards I handed out put fifth graders into groups of 2 or 3 and also told them…

Thinking Tasks

Over the next several days, I’ll be sharing insights I gained as I worked with a group of fifth graders to test drive the first three practices from Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC): For today, let’s break down the task: I gave students the “Missing Cards” task from Mashup Math’s 10 Free Math Riddles…